What are you reading today?

Death of Rats

Thought I’d start a thread where we could check in with our current read,* give a synopsis, critique, whatnot. Maybe interact with others about the books they are reading. Just some good, old-fashioned organized chaos.

I’ll start with the first reply.

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*Yes, I know that at this exact moment, you are reading the forum, but I hope the spirit of the thread will be understood regardless.

Death of Rats

I used to read a lot of fantasy, but find many of them just can’t hold up after reading Pratchett, so these days, needing just random easy fluff, I read a lot of Kindle romance.

My current lark is “It Started with a Book” by Camilla Isley.

It has a fantasy twist as the male lead was the main character in the book the female character was reading, but he showed up in her real life, so that’s sort of fun; although, I find him to be a tad obnoxious. I’m about half way through.

Cam

I’m currently reading “Eloquent Javascript - 4th Edition”… probably not what you had in mind either, so I’ll move swiftly on to the audiobook I just got 😃

It’s my turn again to get a free audible trial, which comes around every year or so, I think the last time I actually paid for an audiobook was back in 2013. I wasn’t sure what to get with my credit, so am giving Stephen Fry’s readings of P.G. Wodehouse - Volume 1 - The Jeeves Collection a go. It seems good so far, and I’ve never seen the Fry & Laurie adaptation of the same, so it’s all new to me.

As an added bonus, the audiobook is 40h long, so I’ll probably still be listening to it when I fly to the US at the end of the month, but I do also have the 70 hour collection of Sherlock Holmes on audiobook as well just in case 😅

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Cam I’ve never watched more than clips from the show. And while I know it’s highly regarded, and looks like a great show, I bet the books will be even better as some nuances just can’t be done in visual format.

And yes, audiobooks definitely count for reading.

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Cam So going through my email, I noticed I had an Audible trial as well. Merry Audiblemas to us! Thought I’d give the same title a go, but it is sadly region locked. Strangely, I can get Vol 2. Ugh. Oh well. You will simply have to regale me with how amazing it is. Or not, as the case may be.

Cam

Death of Rats That’s strange considering the publisher is Audible themselves. I wonder if the rights to audiobooks of his Jeeves works in your country have already been sold to another company.

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Cam I could get the works in different combinations read by different people, so it is likely something to do with that particular version. Oh well.

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